GUYS!! Low Calorie Beers, What's Good Out There?

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  • KristyHumphrey
    KristyHumphrey Posts: 248 Member
    I personally enjoy Michelob ultra but its all a matter of taste!
  • Tiff1124
    Tiff1124 Posts: 261 Member
    I started drinking Michelob Ultra, but realized that I would rather have a couple of really good beers, and the extra cals then beer I don't enjoy drinking.

    Sam Adams Octoberfest- 185 cals in 12 oz. and worth every drop! :)
  • jtbroussard
    jtbroussard Posts: 6 Member
    Keep drinking good beer just limit how much. For example drink only on Friday/Saturday
  • Zalovar
    Zalovar Posts: 92 Member
    I'm not generally a fan of any low calorie type beer but of the ones I've tried, the only one somewhat passable was Beck's Light. Its not great but its not terrible either...and only 64 cals.
  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
    Instead of drinking two light crap beers, drink one good beer instead. Problem solved!
  • DesignGuy
    DesignGuy Posts: 457 Member
    I agree with everyone else about drinking good beer and just working out more or having less or not caring too much.

    BTW, good beer and ANYTHING Coors, Miller or Bud do NOT belong in the same sentence unless you like at Redneck Trailer Park Estates or that's all your state had left (still, I'd go with water). Yeah, go ahead and hate.
  • Nekoashi
    Nekoashi Posts: 220 Member
    Go for an awesome local brew and just work it into the calories for the day; if you're gonna take calories in, they might as well be delicious calories :tongue:

    I agree with anyone else who thinks Bud, Coors, and Miller are not beer. Yeah they might be easier on the wallet, but its terrible on taste and you might as well just have water at that point :laugh:
  • obsidianwings
    obsidianwings Posts: 1,237 Member
    Fellas,

    I never wanted to have to do this, but I need to switch from delicious Shiner Bock to something more calorie sensitive.

    What have you tried? What tastes the best?

    There is no such thing. Life is too short to drink crappy low cal beers
    This. Sucks enough that I can't get my imported Stella anymore, not gonna go purposely searching out crappy beer!
  • LeanerBeef
    LeanerBeef Posts: 1,432 Member
    This thread makes me question the belief that "there are no dumb questions".

    If you want a beer, drink a beer. Beer calories should be enjoyed not counted.....
  • AnnThereseRN
    AnnThereseRN Posts: 44 Member
    The Bud Light Platinum isn't terrible. I am not a fan at all of bud light or miller light, they are indeed terrible.

    Honestly, drink less of the good stuff.

    Favorite beer right now is Goose Island Matilda. It's amazing.
  • Pebble321
    Pebble321 Posts: 6,423 Member
    I drink Pure Blonde - not because it's "low carb" and relatively low in calories (I feel embarrassed putting it in my diary when it has "low carb" in the name!) but because I like the taste.
  • redneckcaseysgirl88
    redneckcaseysgirl88 Posts: 35
    If you like Bud Light, Bud select is pretty good & it's only 55 calories!
  • redneckcaseysgirl88
    redneckcaseysgirl88 Posts: 35
    Also Bud light only has 110 Calories for a bottle.
  • maddiec1989
    maddiec1989 Posts: 144 Member
    it's basically just watered down beer lol but molson 67 at 67 calories/bottle is the lowest I've found.
  • Rickly
    Rickly Posts: 10 Member
    I don't compromise on quality, hopefully never, but in particular for beer. Quantity can be controlled, though. Every 5 pounds I lose, I reward myself wwith one beer, and it's always the best available at the time.The only thing that's hard for me is to have to pick one from among Spaeten Clubweiss/German wheat, Singha/Thai, and Pilsner Urquell/Czech lager.
  • Queen_Freak
    Queen_Freak Posts: 2 Member
    Bud Select Platinum has only 55 calories a bottle. You could drink an entire 6 pack and it would only be 330 calories! So something like that would be great if you're planing to have a lot. And if you don't like the taste, use them after you drink some of your favorites! :)
  • obsidianwings
    obsidianwings Posts: 1,237 Member
    Bud Select Platinum has only 55 calories a bottle. You could drink an entire 6 pack and it would only be 330 calories! So something like that would be great if you're planing to have a lot. And if you don't like the taste, use them after you drink some of your favorites! :)
    That sounds awful, its gotta taste watery? But yeah I can vouch for leaving the crap till last, its much less noticeable then haha. Although the switchover between two beers is never great at first.
  • _CowgirlUp_
    _CowgirlUp_ Posts: 585 Member
    Bud Select Platinum has only 55 calories a bottle. You could drink an entire 6 pack and it would only be 330 calories! So something like that would be great if you're planing to have a lot. And if you don't like the taste, use them after you drink some of your favorites! :)
    That sounds awful, its gotta taste watery? But yeah I can vouch for leaving the crap till last, its much less noticeable then haha. Although the switchover between two beers is never great at first.

    First of all, there's no such thing as Bud Select Platinum. Bud Select has 55 calories and hardly no alcohol or taste. Bud Light Platinum has 137 calories, 8 less than regular Budweiser & tastes just as "regular" as anything else. My top choice is many of the craft beers but for most instances (when I can't get a craft beer) I drink the Platiinum. I love the pretty blue bottles too! :flowerforyou:
  • thevikingninja
    thevikingninja Posts: 13
    http://www.beer100.com/beercaloriesimports.htm
    This site has a list of calories in most good imported beers.
    http://www.beer100.com/beercalories.htm
    And those are the domestics.
  • jquarequio
    jquarequio Posts: 40 Member
    No compromising - GUINNESS
  • frankrimbeck
    frankrimbeck Posts: 1
    If you live in the Mid-Atlantic states (U.S.), I recommend Yuengling Light. It has 98 calories per can/bottle and tastes great.
  • DatMurse
    DatMurse Posts: 1,501 Member
    Bud Select Platinum has only 55 calories a bottle. You could drink an entire 6 pack and it would only be 330 calories! So something like that would be great if you're planing to have a lot. And if you don't like the taste, use them after you drink some of your favorites! :)
    That sounds awful, its gotta taste watery? But yeah I can vouch for leaving the crap till last, its much less noticeable then haha. Although the switchover between two beers is never great at first.

    First of all, there's no such thing as Bud Select Platinum. Bud Select has 55 calories and hardly no alcohol or taste. Bud Light Platinum has 137 calories, 8 less than regular Budweiser & tastes just as "regular" as anything else. My top choice is many of the craft beers but for most instances (when I can't get a craft beer) I drink the Platiinum. I love the pretty blue bottles too! :flowerforyou:

    platinum also has a higher alcohol content.

    alcohol has a thermic effect of 20-25% i believe, 100 calories of alcohol is really about 75-80 and 100 calories of carbs is really like 90%(not sure).

    Just food for thought
  • TR0berts
    TR0berts Posts: 7,739 Member
    There is no such thing. Life is too short to drink crappy low cal beers


    Acg speaks the truth. If you're going to drink beer, drink beer and fit it into your daily/weekly allowance(s).



    eta: Oy, just realized this was an old thread resurrected.
  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    I actually like Coors Light, but I don't like dark beers anyway. Wheats, Ambers and Pilsners.
  • herwholejourney
    herwholejourney Posts: 86 Member
    Fellas,

    I never wanted to have to do this, but I need to switch from delicious Shiner Bock to something more calorie sensitive.

    What have you tried? What tastes the best?

    There is no such thing. Life is too short to drink crappy low cal beers

    This ^^
  • Confuzzled4ever
    Confuzzled4ever Posts: 2,860 Member
    GUINESS /thread


    Guinness: 5 Things You Didn't Know
    Ross Bonander
    Entertainment Correspondent

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    In 1759, Arthur Guinness, a 34-year-old man with some brewing experience, took over an abandoned brewery in Dublin, Ireland, named St. James Gate. He signed a 9,000-year lease with an annual rent of £45, and began to brew.
    A full 250 years later, Guinness is the No. 1 stout in the world, and an enduring symbol of Irish pride. The success of the beer owes as much to its unique aesthetics and long history of award-winning advertising campaigns as it does to its creamy, robust flavor.

    On May 13, 2009, Guinness announced their plans for a celebration of this special anniversary year, culminating on "Arthur's Day," September 24, 2009, when at 17:59 p.m. local time around the world, Guinness lovers will raise a unifying global toast to the man who started it all.

    To commemorate both beer and man, we present five things you didn't know about Guinness.
    1- Arthur Guinness never brewed a stout
    The first thing you didn't know about Guinness is that although his name is practically synonymous with a stout, Arthur Guinness himself never technically brewed one. Beer connoisseurs might accuse us of splitting hairs between porters and stouts; however, during his first couple decades in business he brewed an ale, and in the 1770s, as porters caught on in Dublin, he began brewing one himself. In 1799, he fully committed the brewery to porters -- which is where things stood when he died four years later.
    In 1821, his son Arthur Guinness II established the recipe for a Guinness Extra Superior Porter, the precursor to the Guinness stout known worldwide today.
    2- Three of the five Guinness breweries are in Africa
    Although Guinness is brewed in 49 countries and sold in 150, Guinness itself owns five breweries worldwide, including St. James Gate in Dublin. One is in Malaysia, and the rest are in Africa, specifically in Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon. In fact, Nigeria and Cameroon are among the top five markets for Guinness in the world.
    However, the Guinness variant popular in Ireland, the UK and the U.S. is not the popular one in Africa, where they prefer the Guinness Extra Foreign Stout, a variant with a much higher alcohol content (7.5%) than the draft (around 4.0%).
    3- Guinness saved St. Patrick's Cathedral
    Another thing you didn't know about Guinness is that the cathedral in Dublin dedicated to the patron saint of Ireland is the beautiful cathedral it is today due in large part to the beer most closely associated with the country itself.
    The relationship between Guinness and St. Patrick's Cathedral dates back to Arthur Guinness, who donated 250 guineas to the Chapel Schools of St. Patrick's. However, most of the credit goes to Arthur's grandson Benjamin Lee Guinness, who between 1860 and 1865 donated a whopping £150,000 toward the restoration of the crumbling cathedral. Little surprise, then, that a statue of Benjamin sits prominently on church grounds today.
    4- Guinness draft has fewer calories than orange juice
    Two common misconceptions surround the physical makeup of "the black stuff.” The first is that it's black (officially it has a ruby red color), and the second is that it's a heavy-handed beer, calorie-wise.
    The reality is that 12 ounces of the full-bodied, ruby red stuff has just 125 calories, which is less than the same amount of the orange stuff (OJ: 183 calories) and the white stuff (skim milk: 135 calories). It's also less than many popular beers, including regular Budweiser (143), Coors Original (148), Dos Equis (145), Miller Genuine (143), Sam Adams Boston Lager (160), Sierra Nevada Stout (225) and Anchor Porter (205). Even Guinness Foreign Extra Stout, with 176 calories per 12 ounces, is comparatively low in calories.
    5- Dead rats have nothing to do with the flavor of Guinness
    The legend that dead rats provide Guinness its flavor is pure myth, although songs like the Dropkick Murphys' "Good Rats" do little to dispel it. The story goes something like this: Early Guinness brews didn't taste good until some dead rats were found in a barrel that, apparently, contained better-tasting Guinness. The subsequent success led Guinness to fortify the beer with rat bones. This ludicrous story is predicated on a fallacy (early brews were extremely successful), a fact that, by itself, invalidates the tale.
    In truth, the unique flavor comes from the perfect recipe of roasted & malted barley, hops, yeast and water -- water from the Wicklow Mountains and not, according to another myth, from the River Liffey.
  • bumblebums
    bumblebums Posts: 2,181 Member
    Wow, congratulations on using "good" and "low calorie" and "beer" in the same sentence! I didn't think it could be done.
  • mommy3457
    mommy3457 Posts: 361 Member
    It ain't the best, but Guinness is fairly light in calories. Most sites list around 155 for a 14.9 oz draught can, 125 for a 12 oz bottle. Any lower than that and you might as well drink water!

    Wow, take 45 seconds to look it up, and everyone beats me to it! :tongue:

    Guinness beer is fantastic!!
  • richardheath
    richardheath Posts: 1,276 Member
    Fellas, AND LADIES!!

    I never wanted to have to do this, but I need to switch from delicious Shiner Bock to something more calorie sensitive.

    What have you tried? What tastes the best?

    Shiner is OK, I guess, as a gateway to truly good beer. But you really need to be looking for some good craft brews in your area to get up to the next level. Forget low cal though. Drink good beer - just make it fit.
  • Confuzzled4ever
    Confuzzled4ever Posts: 2,860 Member
    And just cause I wanted to



    http://www.beer100.com/beercalories.htm

    Now you too can know it all.. LOL

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